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Posted 2014-04-23 4:16 PM (#7316 - in reply to #6780)
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I'm seconding the rec upthread for Griffith's Ammonite (though I read it before I found WWE). It's a lot more difficult for me to get into science fiction than fantasy; I'm not sure if it's due to the genre interest directly or just because sci-fi is a lot more likely to be dry. I think it's the latter, because I watch a ton of sci-fi. But nonetheless, I found Ammonite immediately absorbing. It may be the most impressive debut novel I've ever read.

Adding two favorites: Catherynne Valente's The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making -- which fits the Faerie Mythology, WoGF, 12 awards, and YA challenges (though it doesn't really read like YA to me); and Mary Doria Russell's The Sparrow, which fits 12 awards and WoGF.

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